The movie adaptation was produced by ABS-CBN's film production arm, Star Cinema. Pop Fiction's best-selling book, She's Dating the Gangster, written by Bianca Bernardino (SGWannaB) as a Wattpad original, became the first Wattpad story adapted into a full-length motion picture starring Kathryn Bernardo and Daniel Padilla. Wattpad stories aired on the show are usually those that were published by LIB Publishing.ĪBS-CBN also made several adaptations of Wattpad stories such as "My App Boyfie" by Noreen Capili (noringai), starring James Reid and Nadine Lustre, and the coming-of-age series Bagito starring Nash Aguas, Alexa Ilacad and Ella Cruz. Filipino television network TV5, in partnership with Wattpad and Life is Beautiful Publishing Company launched Wattpad Presents, a series of Wattpad stories turned into TV dramas. Since then, some Wattpad stories have also been adapted into teleseries. Other publishers from the Philippines also publish stories from Wattpad. In March 2014, Wattpad signed a contract with Pop Fiction, an imprint of Summit Media, to print Filipino Wattpad stories in the Philippines. Ī handful of pop fiction books originally written from Wattpad that was released under Summit Media. Wattpad's most followed author worldwide, Jonaxx, hailed as the "Wattpad Queen" and "Pop Fiction Queen", is from the Philippines. In the same year, co-founder and CEO Ivan Yuen was also recognized as a top Canadian entrepreneur at the Impact Infused Awards, sponsored by Deloitte. In December 2011, Toronto-based Wattpad was selected as the hottest Digital Media company in the country at the Canadian Innovation Exchange. In January 2018, Wattpad announced USD $51M in funding from Tencent Holdings Limited, BDC, Globe Telecom's Kickstart Ventures, Peterson Group, Canso, and existing investor Raine. In April 2014, Wattpad announced $46M in the Series C funding led by OMERS ventures. Then in June 2012, Wattpad raised $17.3M from a group of venture funds led by Khosla Ventures. In 2011, Wattpad announced that it received $3.5M in total funding from its current investors, and from W Media Ventures, Golden Venture Partners, and Union Square Ventures. As of 2018, there are more than 400 million fanfiction uploads on Wattpad.Īs of January 2018, Wattpad had received almost USD $117.8M in funding from investors. Currently, Wattpad has more than 90 million users who collectively spend 15 billion minutes each month using Wattpad. In December 2015, Windows Phone 8.1 and Windows 10 Mobile Version was released. This was followed by the launch on BlackBerry App World in April 2009, Google Android in June 2009 and Apple iPad in April 2010. In March 2009, an iPhone version was released. According to a June 2009 Wattpad press release, the application had been downloaded over 5 million times. In February 2007, Wattpad had announced the addition of over 17,000 e-books from Project Gutenberg making them available to mobile users. The company is based in Toronto, Ontario. Wattpad was developed in 2006, as the result of a collaboration between Allen Lau and Ivan Yuen. In January 2019, Wattpad launched a publishing division named Wattpad Books in an effort to take the "guesswork" out of publishing for authors. Some of these stories have been transformed into TV dramas and movies examples include After and The Kissing Booth. Wattpad has stories available in more than 50 languages, and nearly 300,000 writers from 35 countries take part every year in the largest writing competition, The Watty Awards. As of November 2021, Wattpad has a monthly audience of more than 90 million users, who can directly interact with the writers and share their opinions with fellow readers. In January 2021, Naver Corporation announced that it would be acquiring Wattpad the deal was completed in May 2021. The platform allows users to write and publish stories, or read stories written by other users. Wattpad is a free online platform that allows people to read and publish original stories. Registration is also required for unlocking Wattpad Paid Stories with Wattpad Coins (since 2018 & 2019). Required for the majority of the tasks, such as: Editing, creating, or reading stories, view profiles, comment or vote stories and post messages.
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